Public Safety
Public Safety is a top priority for local and state government agencies, encompassing the protection of citizens through law enforcement, emergency response, and crime prevention strategies. Effective public safety measures are essential for maintaining order and ensuring the well-being of communities. This directory offers articles on public safety and related topics like Emergency Management, which focuses on preparing for and responding to natural disasters, public health crises, and other emergencies that impact community safety.
Fort Lauderdale officials are expected to vote on an EMS tax on property owners that could generate nearly $55M a year
“Ava” is designed specifically for emergency dispatch centers, including routing calls appropriately and collecting information for public safety resources to be dispatched
Richland County officials hope renovations, corrections officer sign-on bonuses and tighter policies can turn the jail around
Kymeta’s hybrid platform enables reliable communications for first responders in a range of environments and field operations where deployment speed and high mobility are critical factors.
Supporters of the bill, which would require gun sellers to alert police if a potential purchaser failed the criminal background check, say 30% of criminals who try to purchase guns but fail to do so because of background checks are arrested within five years.
A PBS documentary details the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, California, and suggests the tragedy could have been much less catastrophic had potentially life-saving emergency alerts gone out as intended
More than 900,000 people were without power Wednesday, some of them since Saturday, due to the PG&E power shut-offs. This included residents at an affordable housing complex north of San Francisco, a third of whom are too old, sick or cognitively impaired to care for themselves during an extended outage.
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The current wildfire crisis in California should serve as an object lesson in the folly of expecting private enterprise to operate in the service of the public interest.
There’s no lack of proposals for managing wildfires more effectively, but what’s missing are perspectives from indigenous communities across North America
The idea for the new exhibit at Monmouth University in New Jersey is that the power of survival and rebuilding can “erase” the power of the storm and its destruction.
With a tornado bearing down on the small Missouri town of Sparta, the lone warning siren stayed silent because a downed tree kept the mayor from getting downtown to flip the switch that activates it.
Intense weather will overwhelm existing public and private infrastructure unless we adapt now and build more resilient communities.
The modern crisis of homelessness began in the 1980s, when the cost of housing began to rise faster than wages for many Americans. Nationally, 11 million low-income households use at least half their income for housing. This was the case for Frost and her family.
The new evacuation order encompasses a huge swath of wine country stretching from the inland community of Healdsburg west through the Russian River Valley and to Bodega Bay on the coast.
Not being prepared is as expensive as it is debilitating for municipal operations
The Harris County, Texas, Public Safety Technology Services Department earned top prize for building a tool that courts can use to verify the integrity of images entered into evidence.
In the days since his standout performance in the last Democratic debate, Buttigieg has come under criticism for being too cozy with powerful tech industry giant Mark Zuckerberg and faced renewed questions about his ability to attract African American voters.
Just because local government IT departments are underfunded doesn’t mean they can’t prepare for the next cybersecurity breach
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